Trump: "We'll be cutting" entitlement programs. White House: He didn't really mean that.

[applegrove]

Trump: “We’ll be cutting” entitlement programs. White House: He didn’t really mean that.

Following his Fox News town hall, Stephanie Grisham and Kellyanne Conway denied that Trump said what he said.

By Aaron Rupar@atrupar  Mar 6, 2020, 2:00pm EST

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/6/21168038/trump-on-entitlements-fox-news-town-hall

"SNIP.....

During his Fox News town hall on Thursday night, President Donald Trump said he planned to propose cuts to government benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security in his second term. The White House spent the hours that followed trying to walk those comments back.

Trump’s remarks came in the context of a discussion about the national debt, which has ballooned to historic levels under his presidency despite his 2016 campaign promise to eliminate it entirely. After Trump claimed that cutting the debt would be a focus of his second term, host Martha MacCallum pointed out that “if you don’t cut something in entitlements, you’ll never really deal with the debt.”

But before “you’ll never really deal with the debt” even escaped MacCallum’s lips, Trump interjected to agree with the first part of her statement — that cuts to programs like Social Security and Medicare will be necessary to get the debt under control.

“Oh, we’ll be cutting,” he said. “We’re also going to have growth like you’ve never seen before.”


.......SNIP"

Many predicted this retraction. You know the patterns of the rollers (waves of gaslighting) people. And that is half the battle.

[Frustratedlady]

1. Cut SS and Medicare in an election year? Well, we're going to make some cuts, as well...

like you and your administration.

How are we going to have growth like we've never seen before? Businesses are projected to have a bad year because of the virus and it will take a lot of time to build the stock market back to where it was, if ever. More magic, Donnie?

[leftieNanner]

4. Not Magic

Just Stupid and Ignorant.

[struggle4progress]

2. "Can you spot the liar? You can't win if you don't play!"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002&pid=13052844

[Cicada]

3. His recent budget cuts $800 billion

Trump promised he would not cut social security, Medicare or Medicaid. His new budget cuts them $800 billion.

[captain queeg]

5. I didn't hear him specifically say he'd be cutting SS and Medicare

In the clip. Someone ought to isolate when he said that and include it in all sorts of commercials. They are trying to deny he ever said it.

[abqtommy]

6. I didn't like tRUMP before he was ratfucked into the pRESIDENTcy and nothing that's happened

since has given me a reason to change my mind. Just sayin... This latest bull dropping is just the
icing on the Dump tRUMP cake...

[StatGirl]

7. My theory: He doesn't know what "entitlements" refers to

So interviewers ask him about cutting entitlements, and he spouts some BS about balancing the budget and cutting stuff. But he has no comprehension that he is saying that he'll cut SS and Medicare.

The people who are making the budgets, on the other hand, know exactly what they're doing.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. So the Orang Anus touched the thrid Rail.

Bye bye,was not nice knowing you.